Emanuel Lasker and Larry Evans thought that late game, a Mann (non-royal king, moves as a king but can be captured) would be worth 4 points or so. It is conventionally thought in the fairy chess community that a Mann is worth about the same (or just slightly less) than a knight in the early game, due to the low mobility.
Please consider these four specific pieces, and give your estimates for them, e.g. 3.2 pawns, or 5.5 points, etc.
- How many points do you think a knight-pawn hybrid would be worth?
- How strong would a knight-king hybrid be?
- How many points would you place a bishop which can also move one forward or one backwards (and therefore is no longer colorbound)?
- How much weaker would a rook be if it could not capture pieces directly adjacent to it, and it had to move at least two squares at a time?
Some loose criteria could also include:
- Piece can hold it's own against a knight or a bishop, or with supporting pieces demonstrates it can outmaneuver these two when playing for a check in the endgame.
- Is worse than a rook, either in general endgame capability or specifically for creating checks/resticting king movements.
- Would be worth about a knight/bishop and a pawn
- This piece and a pawn would be worth about a rook
For the knight-pawn hybrid, assume that it can move forward on it's first move but it cannot jump two forward, just like a pawn. It can capture in the two forward diagonals but can also move directly forward one space. This gives the piece 10 spaces it can capture and 9 it can move onto, with a forward bias. Forward motion is a quite valuable early-mid game, while only slightly stronger late game (depending upon whether you have pawns to push or capture).
During lategame, a rook can move about 7 vertically and 7 horizontally at most times, while a bishop can move to between 7 and 13. Rooks have higher average mobility lategame, and are not colorbound. A non-royal king can move 8 spaces most of the time during endgame. A knight has access to 8 spaces when in the centre of the board, and is not blocked by pieces which allows for excellent forks but no skewers/pins.
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Removed the checks to make them more subtle.
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
They were cooked in Greece.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?
Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"
Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
But that’s comparing apples to oranges
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
They’re on standbi
And boy are my arms legs.
